TY - JOUR
T1 - Primary extradural meningioma presenting as frontal sinusitis with extensive bony changes casereoprt
AU - Kariyattil, Rajeev
AU - Govindaraju, Venkatesh
AU - Hamid, Rana S.
AU - Unnikrishnan, Muthukuttiparambil
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - Primary extradural meningiomas are rare tumours and calvarial meningiomas with extensive bony changes and frontal sinusitis are rarer still. We report a 40-year-old female patient who presented to the otorhinolaryngologist at the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in Muscat, Oman, in October 2013 with headaches and frontal swelling. She was diagnosed with frontal sinusitis complicated by osteomyelitis. Further clinical examination and imaging revealed a left frontal calvarial meningioma with extensive bony changes and extracalvarial extension into the frontal sinus. She underwent a left frontal craniotomy during which the tumour was removed. Te postoperative period was uneventful and a follow-up computed tomography scan after three months showed only postoperative changes. This report discusses the radiological diferential diagnosis and management of this type of lesion.
AB - Primary extradural meningiomas are rare tumours and calvarial meningiomas with extensive bony changes and frontal sinusitis are rarer still. We report a 40-year-old female patient who presented to the otorhinolaryngologist at the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in Muscat, Oman, in October 2013 with headaches and frontal swelling. She was diagnosed with frontal sinusitis complicated by osteomyelitis. Further clinical examination and imaging revealed a left frontal calvarial meningioma with extensive bony changes and extracalvarial extension into the frontal sinus. She underwent a left frontal craniotomy during which the tumour was removed. Te postoperative period was uneventful and a follow-up computed tomography scan after three months showed only postoperative changes. This report discusses the radiological diferential diagnosis and management of this type of lesion.
KW - Calvarial hyperostosis
KW - Case report
KW - Meningioma
KW - Neoplasm invasiveness
KW - Oman
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84908004391
SN - 2075-051X
VL - 14
SP - e566-e570
JO - Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
JF - Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
IS - 4
ER -